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"In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story--and a modern woman three centuries later."--From publisher's description.
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2020.
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English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
Lone Star List 2022 (Gr. 6-8)
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
Lone Star List 2022 (Gr. 6-8)
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"Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy ... like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much...like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her. So when...
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Princess Academy trilogy volume 2
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Miri returns to Asland and calls upon all of her knowledge of rhetoric and other useful lessons learned at the Princess Academy when she and the other girls face strong opposition while working for a new, fair charter.
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After Yung-lu's father dies of mercury poisoning, the young girl leaves for Chang'an. She is determined to take her father's place as a warrior. When Yung-lu arrives, she is met with two big surprises. The emperor is taking mercury, and the army is not what she had imagined. Will Yung-lu become a warrior? More importantly, will she save the emperor from mercury poisoning?
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Español
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Hispanic Heritage Month - Spanish & Bilingual Kids
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Hispanic Heritage Month - Spanish & Bilingual Kids
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
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"Lupe necesita una A en todas las clases para conocer a su lanzador favorito, Fu Li Hernández, un mexi-chino como ella. ¿Qué pasa cuando el baile de country llega al gimnasio? Lupe no se quedará con los brazos cruzados."--
9) The lie tree
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2016.
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On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, fourteen-year-old Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth.
10) Smoke in the sun
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Flame in the mist volume 2
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English
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"Mariko must uncover deception in the imperial court and rescue Okami, while preparing for her nuptials"--
11) City of beasts
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2019.
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"Glori has to question everything she's been taught when a desperate rescue mission brings her to a strange city where she encounters men for the first time"--
12) Madam President
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A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were President of the United States.
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DeSTEMber - Children
Storytime @ Home: Tails and Tales Summer Reading Challenge
Women's History - Children
Storytime @ Home: Tails and Tales Summer Reading Challenge
Women's History - Children
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In this outer space adaptation of the fairy tale in rhyme, Cinderella dreams of becoming a spaceship mechanic.
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"Twelve-year-old Lalani Sarita takes on the impossible task of traveling to the legendary Mount Isa, towering on an island to the north. Generations of men and boys have died on the same quest--how can a timid young girl in a tiny boat survive the epic tests of the archipelago?"--
16) The Manny files
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The manny files volume 1
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[2006]
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English
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A shy young boy learns how to be more outgoing and self-confident from his male nanny.
17) Rickshaw girl
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In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy--or disguise herself as one.
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